Newsletter February 2003

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Newsletter Number Fifteen * Institute of Postcolonial Studies

Institute of Postcolonial StudiesNewsletter

Number Fifteen February 2003Exploring the colonial encounter and its impact

textual, historical, political and economic on the majority and minority worlds

Occasional Papers

The Institute is pleased to announce the launch of an

Occasional Papers series, which will publish a range ofworks-in-progress, speeches, lectures and articles, which

have been either presented at the Institute or written bymembers of the Institute community.

The Occasional Papers series is aimed at making

accessible to a broader audience some of the scholarlyand activist work that is produced and presented here at

the North Melbourne home of the Institute. It will alsoplay an important role in raising public awareness of the

role and activities of the Institute.

The first paper in the series is Lowitja ODonoghuesAustralian Postcolonial Dilemmas which was her

presentation to the Institute at the Patrons Function on15 May 2002. The second paper, by Margaret Thornton,

is entitled Inhabi ting a Poli tica l Economy of

Uncertainty: Academic Life in the 21

st

Century. Thispaper was originally presented at the Institutes publicforum Lean, Mean and Obscene: Neoliberalism and the

Future of Australian Universities on 2 September 2002.

The Occasional Papers series is edited by Devika

Goonewardene, Edgar Ng and Simon Obendorf. Theeditors express their thanks to Andrew Lek for the cover

design (pictured above) and printing, and to LucasChirnside and Bianca Looney for design advice.

Availability and pricing details for papers in the series

will be available on the Institute website atwww.ipcs.org.au.

Occasional Papers editors Edgar Ng, DevikaGoonewardene and Simon Obendorf (pictured with

Edgars dog Minto)

The High Court and Land Rights

A Public Forum

Uniting Church

51 Curzon Street, North Melbourne

7.30pmThursday 5 June

Moderated by:

The Hon. Anthony NorthJudge, Federal Court of Australia

Speakers:

Marcia LangtonInaugural Professor of Indigenous Studies, University of

Melbourne

Lee GoddenFaculty of Law, University of Melbourne

For further details about this forum please check thewebsite nearer the time


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Semester One Seminar Series

Postcolonial Legal Scholarship

Convener: Ian Duncanson

This seminar series is not intended for specialists whocommunicate in esoteric vocabularies, but for a general

audience interested in discussing and evaluating whatprogressive legal scholarship can contribute to the

current global political problems that concernpostcolonial studies. Most of the presentations are works

in progress to which responses will be very welcome.The series assumes, at its broadest, that, as the well

known joke has it, colonialism has not been post-edanywhere. Australia, a former British colonial is, for

example, still doubly implicated, as an informal colonyof the US and as a power exercising colonial control

over indigenous people.

Law was a tool of colonialism, aesthetically representingwestern rationality to native disorder and pragmatically

overriding local understandings to suit the needs of theconqueror. It has operated at two levels; as international

law it has upheld the interests of the dominant westernpowers; as the domestic law of the colony it has

legitimated the colonists claim to pre-eminence. Theidea that the colonized might use either of these levels of

law to claim for their aims an equality with the aims ofthe colonizer is relatively new, dubious, as we have seen

in both land rights litigation and (principally) US foreigninvolvements. Both the (often unconscious) religious

and cultural freight of white law as we are familiar withit, and the conceptual machinery it uses, predispose it to

reasonable white, western interests, against the

unreasonable demands of the other. Diagnosing thisproblem is a precondition of its cure. The papers anddiscussion in these seminars will contribute to this

diagnosis.

Discussion should not assume that colonialism oppressesonly along ethnic lines. Imperialism, with its emphasis

on exclusive forms of sovereignty encouraged theprocess by which techniques of rule at the periphery

could be imported into the metropole, often as atechnology of order aimed at class or gender insurgency.

At the same time, the experience of colonizing had animpact on the concept of law itself so that in some

respects the process of giving meaning became restrictedto the technical expert. We now find that the kinds of

politics that have re-surfaced in recent clash ofcivilizations rhetoric produce a new authoritarianism,

which in turn affects legal rights.

Programme

13 MarchJenny Beard

The Art of Development A Genealogy ofWestern Origins

First World politics of development, Rule ofLaw programs and economic restructuring for

Third World countries, can be seen as

symptoms of loss within the West and linked toenduring Christian theologies of sin and

salvation.

Jenny recently completed a PhD at theUniversity of Melbourne and is a Research

Associate with the Federal Court.

27 March

Rob McQueen and Scott BeattiePostcolonial Crime Fiction

The well-known western genre of crime fictionoften evolves in unpredictable directions when

practiced in countries of the south.

Rob McQueen is foundation Professor of Lawat Victoria University, Melbourne, where Scott

also teaches.

17 AprilNeil Andrews

The Gospel of the Federal Court, or,(un)natural injustice, the adversarial process

and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait IslanderHeritage Protection Act 1983

The title derives from James Fitjames

Stephens remark that our law is the gospel ofthe English, which admits of no disobedience

Aborigines involved in the Hindmarsh Bridgecase were told that they could resort to

Australian law only on its terms (overlookingthat it was not they who had initiated the

litigation) and rebuked (for not revealing in

court the evidence of Hindmarsh Islandssacred status to women) that they set the rights(of others) at nought in a way not even the

Inquisition attempted. In demanding that thedispute involving the Heritage Act be

adversarial, the court destroyed the purposes forwhich it was enacted.

Nei l teaches at Victoria Universi ty after

unsuccessfully trying to put the rich in gaolwhile working at the corporate and securities

section of the Commonwealth DPPs office.

8 MayIan Duncanson

Praxis and Writing: History, Law and thePostcolonial

The historiographical controversy over whether

its significations r e f e r e n c e a pastincontrovertibly there, waiting for the historian,

or represent, as in a story that could be tolddifferently, is largely absent from the law

discipline. One interpretation of the law/storysbecoming a privileged meaning derived from

canonical texts by privileged readers might be


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the transformation of the British Empire with

the loss of part of America.

Ian has written in the areas of legal education,jurisprudence and law and history and is a

Research Associate at the Institute ofPostcolonial Studies.

15 May

Anne Orford

American Beauty On Economics, Aestheticsand International Law

Anne is an Associate Professor in the LawFaculty at the University of Melbourne and

author ofReading Humanitarian Intervention:Human Rights and the Use of Force in

International Law (Cambridge University Press2003). She is currently a Senior Emile Noel

Research Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center,New York University Law School.

22 May

Judith GrbichNed Kelly as Fetish: Filming Laws Colonial

Imaginary

The outlaw film provides ample grounds forrethinking the age old reasons for

dispossession, popular resistance and the desirefor justice. Psychoanalysis and postcolonial

theory suggest that law is complicit in theenjoyment of bushranger films.

Judith Grbich is a Research Associate at the

Institute of Postcolonial Studies

29 MayConnal Parsley

Rumor, Whisper, Statement, Logic, Ground,Authority

Recent text based artworks, particularly Paul

Carters works in stone at MelbournesFederation Square, articulate a heterogeneity of

linguistic forms. This is borne out in muchpostcolonial theorizing about language and

modes of communication. But language is evergrounded, and in this common grounding we

find an embedded condition for exclusion notlimited to the authorized speech of the

sovereign.

Connal completed his undergraduate studies inlaw and linguistics at the University of

Melbourne in 2001. He is currently completingarticles of clerkship with the Australian

Government Solicitor in Melbourne.

All seminars will be held at 7.30pm at the Institute of

Postcolonial Studies, 78-80 Curzon Street, North

Melbourne. Admission - Members of the Institute: Free,Waged: $5, Unwaged/Student: $3.

Margaret Thornton addresses the Institute at the Public

Forum Lean Mean and Obscene: Neoliberalism andthe Future of Australian Universities held on 2

September 2002.

Journal:Postcolonial Studies

The November issue of the journal, issue 5.3, should bynow have found its way from our publishers in England

to subscribers. As announced in the last issue of thenewsletter, it is a miscellaneous issue that speaks to the

loose concept of crossing, as suggested by our coverimage of an approach to the ghats of the Ganges. The

lead article by Graham Huggan, author of ThePostcolonial Exotic, is a state of the field review of the

question of the Anxiety of interdisciplinarity inpostcolonial studies, from the disciplinary stance of

comparative literature. Review essays on LatinAmerican postcolonialism, by one of the fields most

eminent scholars, John Beverley, and by one of theforemost Hispanicists in Australia, Sergio Holas, focus

on interdisciplinarity too, each providing an extremelyuseful overview of the way postcolonial scholarship has

developed in Latin American studies. They form a verystrong lead to a reviews section that also treats the

Comaroffs collection, Millennial Capitalism and theCulture of Neoliberalism, and Wendy Websters

Imagining Home: Gender, Race and National Identity.Jacquie Lo and Penny Edwards, address the question of

miscegenation in papers arising out of a conference atANU: Los Miscegenations dusky human

consequences examines the early 90s case of the

Gillespie kidnapping in the context of an Australianlineage of high-profile, twentieth-century miscegenationscandals. Edwards, Half-cast: staging race in Burma,

draws on archival material to canvass the Britishperception of the Eurasian in Burma, linking this to

colonial perceptions of Burmese theatre. Finally, AmitavGhosh recalls his friend, the Kashmiri poet, Agha

Shahid Ali, in a quietly resonant token for memoryssake, The Ghat of the only world.

The first issue of volume 6, currently in press, addresses

matters arising in a post-9/11 world. It features fourpreviously untranslated essays by the French

philosopher, Jean-Luc Nancy, each of which speaks tohis conception of monotheism as the defining factor of


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what others might call globalisation, and as the crux of

the present global conflict. The ConfrontedCommunity, Deconstruction of Monotheism and

Consecration and Massacre are recent pieces writteneither just prior to September 11 (and updated in the

light thereof), or in the year following: they turn onNancys particular conception of community, and his

distinctive notion that the confrontation between Islamand the West is a conflict internal to the West. The

War of Monotheism has come to us only in the past

week and deploys the philosophical frameworkestablished in the other pieces to grasp the currentsituation. Ramchandra Gandhis Is the Heart on the

Right Side? is offered as a non-dualist counterpoint toNancys protestation from within monotheism. There

follow pieces by Christine Battersby (Terror, Terrorismand the Sublime: Rethinking the Sublime after 1789 and

2001) and Bill Routt (Who Dances when TerrorStrikes), each providing a genealogy of terror that bears

on 9/11, the first a formal philosophical account, thesecond a more multi-generic approach. Finally, the

reviews section focuses on works generated by theSeptember 11 phenomenon.

Thanks to Udesthra Naidoo for his hard work and acute

assessments of the 9/11 field in the early stages of6.1s conceptualisation. His assistance to the editorial

process was extremely valuable.

With 6.1, we welcome to the editorial team Tim Watsonwho will serve as the North American Associate Editor

to Michele Grossman on the Reviews section. Tim isbased in English studies at Princeton, and has already

made a great contribution to the journal.

Our forthcoming special issue on Taiwan, guest edited

by Shu-mei Shih (6.2) is currently being finalised, andwill provide a very interesting and diverse set of essayson different disciplinary and cultural aspects of Taiwan.

Postcolonial Studies editor Sanjay Seth and Councilmember Rob McQueen debate the merits of Lynne

Cheneys America: A Patriotic Primer at the forumWho Cares about Democracy?

Jennifer Rutherford VisitA Report by Adam Driver

The farrago of ideas, passions, actions and inertia otherwise known as the IPCS student group was

especially pleased to present two firsts in a series ofseminars: Jennifer Rutherfords Cutting Ordinary: An

ABC True Story and the more student orientatedInfuriating Intruders: Narrative Form and Writing

Style: Psychoanalysis as Socioanalysis as EthicalPractice.

While focused upon two different types of production

a film and a book respectively Jennifers presentationstouched directly upon some of the explicit aims of the

Institute: alternative forms of intervening in publicdebates and of presenting academic knowledge.

In its rough cut, Ordinary Australians was a political

documentarythat explored the brutal logic of the far-right. An uncomfortable film, it drew its audience into

an encounter with the unpalatable characteristics ofAustralian racism while at the same time exploring why

and how people were interpellated by Pauline Hanson.After an injection of funds from central Australian

cultural institutions - and consequent loss of directorialcontrol - the film saw the light as A True Story, a

documentary that celebrated a bunch of OrdinaryAustralians. The political/poetic narration was replaced

by "pure journalism" and the central character becameiconic of a mythologised Australian heroism.

The story of this editing process provided in microcosm

an exemplification of how central cultural institutions

reproduce the mythology of white Australia and how theidea of what constitutes a story perpetuates ideas ofnation and national character. A series of quite simple

editorial interventions exclusion of the filmmaker fromthe visual frame; a shift from first to third person

narration; the valorisation of a single character overanalysis of a movement and its global context removed

the uncomfortably intimate dialogue between educatedintruder and ordinary Australianness. Racist

sensibilities and the aggressivity of the moral goodbecame located at the fringe of Australian culture and

not its centre. By removing the cuts from identificationto recoil the audience was safely positioned away from

questioning moral codes common to the One Nationmovement andmore liberal Australian imaginings.

Jennifer showed various examples of the way in which a

film that was conceived as a livre-experience

[] atext that stops the reader in their tracks and forces them

to think otherly, turned into a missed encounter. Shealso related, however, an instance of missed recognition

that touches more particularly upon one of goals of theIPCS: to make the fruits of academic endeavour

accessible to a broader audience.

During the height of the movement, members of One

Nation bought almost every academic text publishedwith One Nation in the title. However, Jennifer


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suggested that an opportunity for a productive encounter

was cut short, not by the complexity of language orconcepts, but by a mode of address. The works went

unheard, if you like, because One Nation members werenot directly addressed as readers who might respond.

Institute Director Phillip Darby with Jennifer

Rutherford and Student Group Convenor, Adam Driver

The title of the seminar the following afternoon Infuriating Intruders was a reference to the unease

with which some took to the jumps between objectifiedanalysis, poetic phrasing and, particularly, an

oversharing I. These stylistic shifts are techniquesdifferently repeated in Jennifers book The Gauche

Intruder: Freud, Lacan and the White AustralianFantasy (MUP, 2000). While hardly uncommon in

postcolonial studies, and always inadequate, theydisturbed not only the commissioning editor of the film

at the ABC, who didnt see directors, only producers,but also a number of reviewers of the book in the

Australian intellectual scene as well.

Jennifer spoke powerfully about a series of public yetproductive failures brought about by such attempts to

use alternative forms of texts, of teaching, of style tointervene in some of the conceptual impasses in

Australian culture and, perhaps, bring about a new kindwriting style through addressing a different kind of

reader: one that would attempt to figure the impasses oflanguage and speaking position, rather than repeat the

linear precision of Australian academic writing and itsimbrication with a questionable nationalist imaginary.

Since most students at the seminar were using

psychoanalytic theory for research into the non-clinicalarena and had no specialist training there, we also spent

time discussing the shift into socioanalysis that many,perhaps most, Lacanians don't accept and its translation

from a metropolitan, mannered and masculinist Frenchtradition. This, of course, led us to a series of questions:

If the analytical situation is an ethical encounter, whatkind of encounter does a psychoanalytic cultural critique

envisage? Is this somehow an especially different issuefor critical interventions more generally?

The written version of the seminar Cutting Ordinary

c a n b e f o u n d a t

http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-Jan-2003/rutherford2.html

Book Series: Writing Past

Colonialism

In August of last year, our London-based internationalpublisher, Continuum, took a dec ision to cease

publication in the areas of literary studies and thesocial sciences and its Editorial Director, Janet Joyce,

had no alternative but to cancel the series. The finalmonograph to be produced under the imprint of

Continuum International is Alison Blunt and CherylMcEwan (eds.), Postcolonial Geographies, to be

published in February this year.

Much as the Editorial Board regretted losing its firstpublisher, it recognised the unique and valuable

opportunity this provided for reviewing the series andbringing it up-to-date with current markets and

publishing trends. As a result of a number of meetingslate last year, the Board produced a position paper

stating in clear and precise terms what the series standsfor, what sort of market it is aimed at and how we see it

functioning in relation to other kinds of publications inthe postcolonial area.

Overall we are looking to provide cutting-edge

publications which will help set the agenda in the manydifferent areas that postcolonial studies has come to

embrace since the early 1990s. We hope to accomplishthis by offering works which:

Engage with contemporary issues or problems Bridge the gap between the university and the

public spheres

Address the gap between theory and practice Are interdisciplinary in approach as well as in

subject Experiment with new kinds of structures or

methodologies

Thus prepared, we approached three publishers,University of Hawaii Press, Cavendish in London and

Melbourne University Publishing. It was the Board'sview that the University of Hawaii Press would be the

ideal principal publisher for the series, complemented byco-publishing agreements with Cavendish and

Melbourne University Publishing.

University of Hawaii Press has responded positively.Its Director, Bill Hamilton, is attracted by the idea of the

Institute and by our commitment to attempt to reach outto a broader constituency of readers. The position we

have reached is that the decision about the series will bemade very largely on the basis of the Press's response to

a package of book proposals to be submitted in earlyMarch.

We are delighted to announce that an agreement has

been reached with Cavendish Publishing for co-publication of law-related texts and the Institute looks

forward to a broader collaborative relationship in the

future. The Institute is most grateful to Dr Beverley


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Brown, Commissioning Editor Cavendish

Publishing/GlassHouse Press for her support.

On the day this newsletter went to press, Phillip Darbyhad encouraging discussions over an abstemious lunch

with Louise Adler, publisher and CEO of MelbourneUniversity Publishing. A reinvigorated co-publication

arrangement with MUP, relating particularly toAustralian and Indigenous titles, is now on the agenda.

Student Group

Over the last 6 months the student group has remained

largely focussed around the reading group, but has anumber of other projects in process.

The reading group began with a detailed discussion of

Spivaks (1999) revision of Can the Subaltern Speak?In an attempt to get a better understanding of the details

of her text we then began to unpack some of thereferences to other writers, covering moments in

Mahasweta Devi, Derrida, Deleuze and Foucault, amongothers. Throughout our discussions we have tried tounderstand the implications of these texts for our own

positions as (relatively) privileged intellectuals

attempting to ethically engage with others across thestructures of (post?)colonial subject formation. The

topic of ordering Pizza also remains a recurring pre-occupation.

Another ongoing activity of the student group has been

the choosing of a name for our proposed e-journal. Sofar the top position on the short-list has been stubbornly

claimed by Echo - defined by Spivak (1996) as a namefor the random possibility of the emergence of an

occasional truth of a kind.

Over the summer break the main reading group hasformed a splinter group which is devoted to reading

Spivak (1999) in its entirety. This group appears set tocontinue for some weeks it is currently up to chapter

two. Some rather late moves have also been made toaffiliate with vicpeace, in order to formalise the direction

of some of the groups anti-war energies.

In 2003, the main reading group will continue meetingon fortnightly Tuesdays at 6pm. In the first or second

week of semester we plan to hold a viewing of NationalGeographics film Search for the Afghan Girl(2002) a

film replete with opportunities for outrage at thecontemporary manifestations of the Western obsession

with unveiling the third world as authentic spectacle.This session will be a good one for those who may be

thinking of joining the group, as it will allow a fairlylow-key chance to get to know each other over video,

informal discussion, food and drink. Come along, wellbe happy to meet you.

Other planned activities are (1) a seminar in which Anna

Szorenyi & Juliet Rogers will present papers given at the

December Fear of Strangers conference in Adelaide papers which consider media representations of refugees

and of Muslim women, in different ways pointing out

how the mainstream constructs them as compromised(non)subjects and therefore invalid speakers. (2) After

the success of the seminars presented by JenniferRutherford around The Gauche Intruder last year,

another seminar series is being developed with invitedguest speakers presenting their work and an opportunity

to dialogue with them more intimately in a smallerstudent seminar. This will (almost certainly) begin with

Ghassan Hage. And, (3) a newly revamped webpage.

For more information on the student groups activitiesvisit our homepage www.ipcs.org.au/student.html or join

our email list by emailing: [email protected]

Finally, congratulations to our virtual student group

member Surya Parekh (currently at UC Irvine) on thebirth of his baby boy Pranav on 22

ndJanuary 2002.

Tammi Jonas and Marilyn Lake, following Marilynspresentation On Being a White Man: Australia circa

1901 on 29 October 2002

Institute welcomes Savitri Taylor

Savitri Taylor, from the School of Law and LegalStudies at La Trobe University, will be joining the

Institute in first semester as Research Scholar. She isworking in the area of refugee studies, playing particular

attention to the Pacific Solution.

New resident at the InstituteThe Institute offers a warm welcome to its newest

resident, Gabrielle Simm. Gabrielle entered intoresidence in early February 2003 after a year studying

Lao language and working in Laos. Before that, sheworked in Canberra in the public service for 4 years and

completed a masters in international relations, followingon from undergraduate work in arts and law. She is

particularly interested in maintaining her links withSouth East Asia and in exploring postcolonial critiques

of international law.

The Institute extends its best wishes to Dirk Tomsa,former resident, for his PhD studies in the future.


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Institutional Linkages

Pursuant to our association with the Department of

International Relations at Jadavpur University, Kolkata(Calcutta), a paper being prepared by a study group of

the Institute will be forwarded to Jadavpur in March.The Department at Jadavpur will then produce a paper in

response. It is envisaged that both papers will bepublished in the Occasional Papers series (see page one)

and that further down the track, there will be aninternational collaborative publication.

In November of last year, Dr Sanjukta Battacharya took

over from Dr Anjali Ghosh as Head of Department atJadavpur. The Institute very much looks forward to

working with Sanjukta.

In December of last year, John Strawson of theEncountering Legal Cultures Research Group of the

Faculty of Law, University of East London (with whomwe have an Agreement of Association) visited

Melbourne and had discussions with the Institute about

possible joint initiatives. He presented a draft proposalfor a collaborative project Palestine and Australia:Questions of Land and Justice which might be pursued

by the two bodies in conjunction with the Institute ofLaw at Birzeit University, Palestine. John envisages an

international conference held in the Middle East,perhaps in Amman or Cairo, in 2004.

The Hon John Cain, former Premier of Victoria at theInstitutes forum Lean Mean and Obscene:

Neoliberalism and the Future of AustralianUniversities, 2 September 2002

Advisory Group

A small advisory group has been set up to advise

Council, the Board of Directors and the Director aboutstrategic planning, financial issues and the public role

and profile of the Institute. We are honoured that theHon. John Cain, former Premier of Victoria, Ms Hilary

McPhee, Vice-Chancellors Fellow, University ofMelbourne, and Gary Highland, National Spokesperson,

Corporate Public Affairs, Australia Post have agreed tobe members of this group.

Marcia Langton

The Institute extends its warmest congratulations to

Marcia Langton on her receipt of the first NevilleBonner Indigenous University Teacher of the Year

Award. Marcia was nominated by the School ofAnthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies,

University of Melbourne, with the support of theUniversity. A parallel award went to Professor Larissa

Behrendt of the University of Technology, Sydney.

Foreshadowing Second Semester

Ashis Nandy VisitIt is with great pleasure that the Institute announces that

Ashis Nandy, Distinguished Fellow of the Institute, willbe paying a return visit to the Institute in second

semester. Ashis had originally proposed to come toMelbourne in first semester but was forced to postpone

his visit. We look forward to having Ashis and Umaback with us.

Seminar Series

Rachel Fensham and Amanda Macdonald will convenethe seminar series for Semester 2 under the head of 'The

Postcolonial Comic'. The series will present a mix ofpresentations both by comedians and by academics with

a take on the comic. A highlight of the series will beperformance by Max Gillies. The role of the jest in

postcolonial situations and within postcolonial studieshas received relatively little attention, and the series

hopes both to interrogate laughter and to import a gooddeal of the actual article into the IPCS.

Postcolonial Legal Scholarship Series

This series will flow into second semester. SandraBerns, Roshan de Silva and Bill Macneil, all from the

School of Law at Griffith University will each present apaper. In addition, at least one other public forum is

planned.

Colloquium on the Cultural Unconscious and thePostcolonising Process

This conference, sponsored by the Critical TheoryInstitute, University of California, Irvine, The Ashworth

Program in Social Theory, University of Melbourne andthe Institute of Postcolonial Studies, will take place on

the 6-8 September. The conference will critically engagewith psychoanalysis and conceptualisations of the

unconscious, in order to better analyse the formations ofsubjectivity under colonial and postcolonial conditions.

It will pay particular attention to contemporaryprocesses, including globalisation, mass migrations and

displacement, nationalism and citizenship, privatisationand corporatisation. The conference will be by invitation

but open sessions will be arranged in the evenings. It isexpected that a book will be produced from the

conference proceedings.


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Subscriptions

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due for renewal every January. Personalised subscriptionreminder notices will be mailed to members one month

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Professor Tony Coady Deputy Director of the Centre forApplied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the forum

Lean Mean and Obscene: Neoliberalism and theFuture of Australian Universities, 2 September 2002

Professor Brad Morse, Law School, Ottawa University

addresses the Institute on 'The Continuing Significanceof Historic Treaties and Modern Treaty-Making:

A Canadian and United States Perspective', 22 July2002

Chandani Lokuge, Director, Centre for PostcolonialWriting, Monash University at her presentation The

Imaginary Homeland of Michael Ondaatje held on 7August 2002

Documents

Newsletter February 2003